if this is right i want to know what im doing wrong.. dodges website says a mega cab 2wd gets 13/19 empty (13/17 4x4) and we all know how valid those statements are....

btw this is a gasser mega cabe we are talking bout...and apparently not on flat roads either...

 

It's actually central and northern Wyoming, not real flat at all.

I can also get 20 on the hwy if I drive carefully, no trailer or load of course. I average 16-17 if I'm not paying attention to my driving habits.

The MC's aren't that bad, as long as you drive nice and slow (60-70) and use low rolling resistance tires, inflated to a few psi under max load.

I'm also getting 37.5 on the hwy in my new Sentra and it's only rated at 33.

It's all about how you drive it. Let it roll up hills, no reason to make 70 up a hill when you can make the speed back up going back down it, let it slow to 60. And sure it might take me about a minute to get up to 65 from a stop (without trailer) but the slow, smooth acceleration saves a LOT of gas.

 

Are you going by the overhead or doing the math on this? I know my overhead will tell me all the time that I am getting around 18 to 19 mpg, and then I will do the math, and it will be 14 to 15.

 

Oh come on now, diesels don't even get that kind of mileage pullin, thats what they are designed to do. Maybe the overhead is stuck on 20 mpg or whatever. I hook a trailer to my diesel, and the overhead mpg's even drop. Maybe if your pullin mostly downhill on a coast speed, not in the pedal though. Im gonna have to go with b-no way in hell.

 

My overhead said once that I was getting 24 mpg....

I pulled a covered UHaul 105 miles weighing around 3500 lbs and I got 13 mpg , but down here everything is flat, I was crossing Alligator Alley with no lights and no traffic. My best mileage was 17 mpg on a road trip to Pa. from here to NC. Once I hit the mountains, it went down dramatically. With the winter blend, I have yet to get over 15 on any trip that I have made.

 

I go by the overhead and the pump. I find that as long as I reset right after a fillup, and don't touch it again till the next, it's usually within 1mpg of the actual calculated mpg.

BTW, when going up hills at 70 with that much weight, you have a lot of momentum, when you let off the gas, you get a free ride up the hill, at the expense of some speed of course, and going back down, you don't need any gas as that much weight falls pretty quick. I'm not jokeing about that millage. If you guys don't want to believe it, lets just agree to disagree

And if it makes anyone feel any better, I can't get over 13 in my '96 1500 5.9l, even on a flat hwy without a load or trailer and there is no way it could tow my fiber trailer.

 

I voted no way in hell. I have a reg cab 1500 and when I was stock I barely got 14 mpg (was like 14.1***** by hand math)pulling a 5,000lb flatbed trailer (my overhead said I was getting 17mpg), and the 200 mile drive was mostly flat. You have a heavy *** megacab and getting 13-14 mpg with a 3,000lb heavier trailer plus however much more weight for the truck itself with the same engine. Sorry I just find it hard to beleive.

 

ok, just wanted to make sure, i mean, i do what i can to improve my fuel econ, i dont date fat chicks, thats gotta help the mpg.....

 

Sounds like this guy's a little confused. I might believe it if he had a CTD.

 

we also have a difference of opinion, he says a 96 1500 has a 6 lug and i seem to recall its a 5-139.7.. but who knows im just a lil ol gasser that doesnt drive a real truck like a megacab...... ......
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